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By Melissa Quinn and Lisa McLean Alexandria residents gathered at the Beverley Hills Community United Methodist Church and Mount Vernon Community School to hear school board candidates from districts A and B debate. The candidates talked [...]

By the time 13,000 students take their seats in city classrooms next fall, two of their number will find themselves sitting on the Alexandria School Board as well. The board approved creating a pair of nonvoting [...]

A proposed overhaul of the school district’s high school equivalency and English language learner programs have left students and volunteers uneasy, despite repeated assurances from administration officials. Early rumors of the changes sparked a backlash from [...]

Judge James C. Clark ordered a former Alexandria City Public Schools bus monitor to pay $35,000 in damages to a student she assaulted multiple times in October of 2009. Shawnee Keels of Oxon Hill, Md., struck [...]

A bitter dispute between Seminary Hill Association and city officials ended quietly earlier this month with a school board decision to upgrade Francis Hammond Middle School’s field without lights. The project initially called for a new [...]

Superintendent Morton Sherman unveiled Alexandria City Public Schools’ $236-million fiscal year 2013 operating budget Thursday, a proposal that shakes up several of the district’s popular programs. The proposal, which has yet to garner approval by Alexandria [...]

Virginia education officials have honored Charles Barrett Elementary School with an excellence award for performing above state and federal accountability standards. The Alexandria school was one of 447 across the commonwealth to earn a Virginia Index [...]

The results of an independent audit into Alexandria City Public School’s financials won’t be finalized until sometime this month. Officials originally expected to publicize the results of the review, conducted by Robinson, Farmer, Cox Associations, in [...]